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R E K AM P R OSE S F K T I V 2 0 1 0 1

Ambon is the place of

the 5th

Eastern

Indonesia Forum

conducted on 1‐2

November 2010.

This multi‐stakeholder

forum involves many

development actors

which are considered

as reformist in

undertaking its works.

The smart practices as valuable inspiring source should be shared in a process which

can lift up the motivation and give deep impression to all parties. In order to share the

smart practices, the stories will be presented in a sparkling way to generate spirit, love,

and dream effectively. It is expected that all people who have the sense of hearing will

be touched to inspire them doing something different for their area.

During one full day, the participants will be invited to sail out for treasures in the six

regions of eastern Indonesia. It is like a ship, the journey will be started from one place

to another place which has a treasure in the form of Smart Practices. A captain and

treasure hunters will guide all participants to join the journey on the ship, as agreed by

them, named as ‘Manggurebe Ship’, which means come on to join the

expedition! All participants join the journey of the six Smart Practices, i.e., gender

equality, education, health, environment, economic development and public services.

Connection among the six themes is expected to be an alternative development model

applicable for different regions.

2nd

day, the participants were invited to give their responses to the Smart Practices and

conducted group discussion to look for ideas on how to expand impact of the Smart

Practices and to determine resolutions for the six themes.

Smart

Practices

for

Eastern

Indonesia

Development

This time, The Eastern Indonesia Forum (EIF) was designed differently with the intention that the participants can

take expectations and inspirations to their homeland. Many people consider that eastern Indonesia is a

disadvantaged region, but in fact many inspiring treasures were hidden in this region. With the theme of the

conference “Inspiration from Eastern Indonesia for Indonesia”, fourteen resource persons consisting of six

Smart Practice presenters and eight inspirators, will share their touching stories to the participants. They represent

the other inspiring stories since it has some criteria among others inovative, participatory, sustainable, accountable,

pro‐poor and gender equality, and it has real impacts.

F K T I

V

THE 5TH

EASTERN INDONESIA FORUM

AMBON, 1‐2 NOVEMBER 2010




PREPARATORY WORKSHOP

One day before the Forum, a Preparatory Workshop was held for the presenters of Smart Practice and for the

inspirators who became the stars in this forum. This was aimed at improving presentation skills of the resource

persons.

The

workshop

was

started

with

introduction

and

followed

by

rehearsal

of

presentations

by

each

resource

person while estimating the time required. Some tips were provided to them:

Treat participants as king.

Typical character of a king is to ask: What can I do? What can

be applied in other places? Therefore, don’t tell about negative

and complicated things so that the king has answers to his

questions. This forum provides a short chance to make

promotion. The important thing to do when making a

presentation is ‘How to convince audience on the importance

of

my

story?’

Spread your ideas and shake them

Since the time available is limited, avoid to tell the story from

the beginning till the end. Choose the points of the idea?

What’s comforting? The second task is to make the audience

feeling that they can do what has been told, so that the

conversation is not one way only. According to some theories,

human brain is a picture processor, not a word processor. So

we have to come beyond the ears or eyes to reach the brain of

the audience.

Imagine what is told.

Help the audience to imagine or see what is presented. For the

inspirators who make a presentation without visual aid (video),

more illustrative presentation should be made so that the

audience can imagine the story.

Presenter may also use body as visual aid. For instance, making

a hospital at the stage in the form of drama, and so on. Usually

audience is interested to a presentation with combination of

pictures and texts.

Make

a

design,

not

a

decoration.

Make a concept of presentation, e.g., village with softer font,

related to custom, and so on. Like making a sculpture from a

stone, it will not be carved straightly, but thinking the concept

first. Facilitator team will assist to prepare slides and concept

of the presentation.

Embed a healthy relation.

Embed a pride on what we did. Just relax if you do small

mistakes. The stage would be similar to a fashion show,

without a podium.




OPENING OF THE 5 EIF

The opening ceremony of the 5th

Eastern Indonesia Forum

in Ambon on November 1st 2010 was started with welcome

dance by kid dancers from Sanggar Serafim of Ambon

performing Hula‐Hula Dance. They got applause from the

participants. The program was continued by singing the

national anthem of Indonesia Raya solemnly.

The next agenda was opening speech by Prof. Dr. Ir. Hj.

Winarni Monoarfa, MS (Head of EIF working group). After

thanking to God and welcoming all participants gathered

(bakudapa in local language) at the EIF in Ambon, she

addressed that even though the Eastern Indonesia has

been accelerated in growth, there many challenges were

still faced. Excluding North Sulawesi, HDI of the provinces ineastern Indonesia is low, number of poor population is

higher than that of the national, absorption of credit fund

is low, and some other issues are challenging to the eastern

Indonesia in the future.

To take the challenge, innovative approach is required to

produce Smart Practices at local level in carrying out

effective development. This forum will address six Smart

Practices and inspiring stories from eastern Indonesia.

These stories

were

addressed

to

generate

spirit

and

give

inspirations to the people in eastern Indonesia so that

they can race for advance collectively. In the local

language, “let’s manggurebe for development”.

The second speech was given by Dr. Ir. Dedi S. Priatna, MSc

(Deputy Minister of BAPPENAS for Facilities and

Infrastructures) representing the Minister of BAPPENAS

who cannot attend. The speech was emphasized the

importance of development in eastern Indonesia as a part

of the national development. He addressed several pointsrelated to the national policy direction, particularly for

acceleration and progress of eastern Indonesia

development, regional interconnection and improvement

of competitiveness, financing, as well as hopes and

challenges.

Several things indicating development gap between Eastern

Indonesia and other regions are:

• Sulawesi showed relatively high economic growth by

7.72%, but the role of EI in the overall national

economy is still 18% away than the KBI which reached

82%.

• Most developed areas are in the provinces in Eastern

Indonesia, namely West Sulawesi (100%), NTT (95%),

and Papua (93%).

• Two regions with the lowest per capita GDP is also still

in EI, namely Maluku and NTT.

• Most of the provinces in Eastern Indonesia have

poverty rates above the national average and the

highest is Papua and Maluku. Similar with the

unemployment rate, most of the provinces in eastern

Indonesia have unemployment rates above the

national average.

• Based on the 2008 HDI, most provinces in eastern

Indonesia, except for North Sulawesi, were below the

national rates. Three provinces in eastern Indonesia

that have the lowest IPM rates were NTT, NTB, and

Papua.

• In relation to Capital Investment both foreign and

domestic, foreign investment in EI (Eastern Indonesia)

showed only 1% and domestic investment by 16%.

Considering these gaps, five directions were formulated for

regional development in the RPJMN 2010‐2014, i.e.:

1. Encouraging the growth of the potential area of EI

2. Improving inter‐regional linkages through inter‐island

trading activities to strengthen the domestic economy

3. Improving the competitiveness of leading sectors of the

region

4. Speed up the growth of the disadvantaged areas,

strategic and fast‐growing region, border areas, and

disaster prone areas.

5. Encourage the development of marine and maritime

sectors.

6. To encourage the things mentioned above, a strategy

to speed up the development of EI were build,

consisting of coordination and communication,

increasing competitiveness, and the change of public

management. In addition, there are four strategies for

a highly competitive economic growth of EI which are

increasing the productivity, innovation and

productivity, integration across sector and across

The atmosphere of the 5

th Eastern Indonesi Forum, 1

stday




region, domestic linkage, and attention to equity and

justice.

At the end of his speech, the representative of the Head of

BAPPENAS, delivered 5 expectations and challenges, i.e.:

• The competitiveness of EI should be improved with

focus on improving domestic linkages and creative

innovation based on local resources.

• The bureaucracy of government which is responsive to

the challenges, potential and problem areas

• Accelerating the development of eastern Indonesia

through the six priority sectors namely: agriculture,

fishery, animal husbandry, education and training,

mining and energy, tourism, transportation, commerce

and industry

• Development of new growth centers that empower

local communities and coordination across sectors such

as infrastructure, energy, banking and land.

• Optimization of cooperation among regional and

subregional economic cooperation that involving the

provinces in eastern Indonesia

The next speech delivered by Bapak Karel Albert Ralahalu –

the Governor of Maluku, as a host of the meeting. He

started his speech with the statement that "The success of

the achievement of regional development in eastern

Indonesia is an aggregation of existing local government

success". Since 2004, the EI aims to develop partnerships

and synergy of various stakeholders in responding to

development challenges in eastern Indonesia and to

encourage the achievement of effectiveness and

sustainability of development by relying on knowledge‐

based development and cooperation among stakeholders.

This 5th

EI Forum becomes very strategic in the midst of

government efforts to encourage the central‐local synergy

in the acceleration of National Development to make

Indonesia more prosperous, democratic and fair. This is in

line with the topics of the working meetings of the local

government with the President which has been done four

times in 2010, which aims to strengthen coordination

among all development actors to strengthen the integration

and synergy of development planning and implementation,

both between sectors and between central and local.

This

forum

is

expected

to

bring

out

ideas

and

important

formula as an effort to strengthen integration and central‐

local synergy of the eastern Indonesian region and also in

order to accelerate the implementation of the priority of

the national development 2010‐2014.

In addition, the 5th

EIF is expected to answer the challenges

facing by the Eastern Indonesia, for example economy,

poverty, unemployment, education and health. A

constructive cooperation is expected to be established

through this Forum.

All resource persons on Smart Practices and Inspiring Stories

took picture together




Before starting the journey to find the smart practice, the

manggurebe ship captain and the treasure hunters invited

Mr. Willi Toisuta – Board of Trustee Chairman of the

BaKTI Foundation

to tell the experiences of BaKTI and

reviews of smart practices from the previous year.

According to Mr. Willi, BaKTI‐Eastern Indonesia Forum has

facilitated the Forum for five times and connected the

development stakeholders in eastern Indonesia from 12

provincial including governments both local and national,

NGOs, academics, private sector, international

development partners, and others. BaKTI’s role in providing

development information in BaKTINews is like a speaker for

the initiative and creativity that arise.

BaKTI also promotes Smart Practices which essentially an

innovative creative solutions in response to local

development challenges.Example: reform of the

bureaucracy in the city of Ambon, Jumilah school, micro

hydro initiatives, etc. Advantages of Smart Practices are

effective, meet the challenge, easily replicable, low cost,

and right on target. BaKTI actively encourage replications of

the Smart Practices.

He also mentioned about the Eastern Indonesia

Researchers Network (JiKTI), which becomes part of BaKTI

as the front line of thought and research‐based policy

formulation. JiKTI is expected to working with Bappeda in

the region to carry out development tasks and help in

formulating necessary things to become policies. So that

the development can be achieved and there is balance in

attaining sustainability.

In the end of his speech he emphasized the importance of

EI forum as a network of the common needs. So, it’s

important to see EIF network as an investment to drive

development in the eastern Indonesia in the future. BaKTI

together with JiKTI will be a loyal, innovative, and proactive

companion to cooperate in moving forward.

The researchers know where the treasure so the ship

captain and the treasure hunters invited Mr. Ma'ruf Kasim ‐

Focal Point of JiKTI to delivere the condition of eastern

Indonesia. He said that this network was formedthree years

ago and every province has their own focal point and

responsible in the activities in their province.

The things that have been done by JiKTI includes various

activities such as workshops, networking and research

collaboration.Collaboration with other parties have also

been carried out for example the Asia Foundation in terms

of providing capacity building to develop a network with

researchers and support BAPPEDA in enhancing

development in eastern Indonesia.

In the presentation, JiKTI also mentioned some of the

challenges facing development in Eastern Indonesia,

namely in terms of economic empowerment, basic

education, basic health, and the role of women is a

challenge that must continue to strive for. The role of

women become important in the society so that still more

things need to be done to put men and women equal. In

addition, various indicators show women still lag behind

men in various development sectors. The challenge for the

economy, showed the economy was dominated by large‐

scale industries such as mining, oil and other extraction

industries turned out to only absorb 20% of labor. Whereas

medium or small businesses can absorb 70% of the labor.

This has a tendency of better and more productive because

workers to provide higher added value than the large

business sector workers. Despite this greater investment is

needed for small and medium enterprises in order to have

a positive impact. In addition, cooperative characteristics

that suit the culture and tradition can support the

repayment of loans and guarantee the rotation of economy

sustainability.

Another challenge is basic education, where school

children aged 7‐12 years reached 94% and low education

quality. The number of school dropouts is also high,

reaching 2 million and teacher qualifications are still low.

For basic health care,Eastern Indonesia is the largest

contributor to the malaria cases that causes loss of 12% of

national income. In eastern Indonesia, access to clean

water is not evenly distributed. Only 75% of the middle and

upper class society that can access the clean water and

TREASURES FROM THE EAST“Stories on Smart Practice and Inspiring Experiences”




40% for those on low income. The irony is this crisis

happens in the place that has many clean water resource

but they don’t manage it properly. In contrary with that

situation, many people still assume that water is sent down

from heaven so that it can be used excessively. For that

reason, a strategic management is needed.

One of the efforts to deal with the challenges is to discover

and replicate various smart practices. There are six smart

practices presented in the 1st day of the EIF Meeting, i.e. :

safe house for gender equality, healthy village in more

than name in Bone‐Bone, integrated effort to fight for

Malaria, building self confidence from an early age‐a story

from Papua, village‐managed water utility company in

Lombok, and women cooperatives, which would be

presented next.

These smart practices are EI treasures which are expected

to be replicated to answer the challenges in eastern

Indonesia. Strategic steps with the government are one of

the challenges to get out from the problems faced by the

Eastern Indonesia. And in order to support BAPPEDA as

well as other sector are the research conducted by JiKTI is

expected to be applicable and can support the

development especially in knowledge sector in Indonesia.

Ma’ruf Kasim, member of JiKTI: The Smart Practice is a treasure from Eastern Indonesia.




Safe House for Gender Equality

The short film of “Safe House for Gender Equality” from Kupang‐NTT was presented. The film tells about how the Safe

House provides guidance to the women and children that are victims of violence. Besides that, they also give guidance

to the violence perpetrators.

Continuing the story of the movie above, the captain and the treasure hunters invited friends from the Safe House (Wati

Bagang and Sarci Maukari) to tell a story that completes the information of the movie. The presentation delivered in the

form of discussion about how the domestic violence occurs. Misconceptions of culture increasingly marginalize the

position of women. For example the belis culture or dowry that actually appreciates women is experiencing changes in

the value and even marginalizes women. “Beta pukul beta pung sapi ” means I hit my own cow is a phrase often uttered

by the husband when committing violence against his wife who he had bought, he assume, with dowry. This relation

happens because there are assumptions with paying the dowry the man had become his property.

One innovation is to do with counseling or assistance to male perpetrators of violence against women. It was very

proudly that this approach was adopted by Synod of GMIT, an organization of churches in Timor, and also adopted by

the government in giving pastoral services to couples in the conflict.

GENDER EQUALITY

SMART PRACTICE: EAST NUSA TENGGARA

Wati Bagang (Women House, Kupang – NTT) and Sarci Maukari

(Sanggar Suara Perempuan, South Timor Tengah– NTT).

Both are councilors for women and children victims of domestic

violence.

Different photos of Safe House

activities (Safe House Doc.)




Building Self Confidence from an Early Age: A Story from Sarmi, Papua

John Rahail, one of the founder of Sekolah Kampung (Village School), said how important education for children in

Papua. Village school was developed and synergized with the management of the village so it called community‐based.

All started from a study that showed that 70% area in Papua are in rural area, the impact is the education cost more

expensive and most of them allocated for paying teacher’s salary who live outside the village. Another challenge is the

gaps between school education and home education. They didn’t learn anything at home so the impact is the only

education they get is only from school. Therefore, the development of Village School , which was done by community

themselves and in accordance with the village needs, become an acceptable idea for the community.

Almost every village in Papua has their own elementary school building, but what’s lack is the children confident to

enjoy school and continuing their education. With self confident, children can love school and its environment. In the

early development of Village School , many people thought that people from the Institute of Community Empowerment

and Development (ICDP), an organization in Papua which initiated this idea, will be the teachers. After some time,

people then realize that they themselves who develop the school, including become the teachers of Village School. Then

they started to realize that they are able to help themselves.

After the Village School was constructed, the pattern of life was changed. Now, children always washing their hands and

taking bath before going to school. The parents are also aware the importance of education for the children, they take

their children to school and even joined with them to study and finally they can read as well.

When the Village School was established in 2007 in Kampung Beneraf, Mr. Martinus didn’t know anything about what is

Village School , and he was able to understand it after received training for a month. Teaching‐Learning process was done

in the open air or in church. Although the knowledge of the Village School administrators are still less, but their desire to

promote education and raise their children’s future is very high. When the Governor of Papua visited Beneraf, he

advised, “for those who know how to ride a bicycle, please teach the other to do it”. The message encourages the

people to keep developing Papua.

BASIC EDUCATION

SMART PRACTICE: PAPUA

Different Photos of Village School

(doc. ICPd Papua)

John Rahail (Direktur ICPd Papua) dan Martinus Wainok

(Kepala Sekolah Kampung Beneraf)



R E K AM P R OSE S F K T I V 2 0 1 0 1 0

PAPUA

Inspiring Story:

Leading

Papua

‐‐‐ Barnabas Suebu, The Governor of

Papua

The story begins from a village with the RESPEK (Village

Development Strategic Plan). This program has been an

excellent program which had been implemented in 3000

villages. RESPEK is not a Government Program, but more like

people’s movement. What need to be done is just “go down

to the village”.

This program was born based on the report of Public

Expenditure Analysis and Capacity Enhanchment (PEACH),

that is very helpful in analyzing Papua expenditure. The fact

that people only got 10% from the total development fund

that government distributed, encouraged the Governor to

reset the expenditure. Bravely, Barnabas Suebu cut off the

officer budget up to 1 trillion rupiahs and disbursed it as

Development Fund for 3000 villages. The objective is to build

clean water, sanitation, health care, education and other

public services for the village welfare.

To support the movement, the budget was focused on

improving people’s welfare. Currently, there are 1,500

Community Learning Centers (CLCs), which were focused on

helping the children in study. The knowledge about

nutrition, how to build a healthy house, and other important

knowledge can be accessed on the CLCs.

Other thing that had been done was build a better human

resources. Until now 200 scholarships had been granted to

young people of Papua to study in various top universities

outside Papua. The people of Papua who had been

disappointed now excited. In thousands villages the

people know that there are changes and they can

make the changes.

BASIC EDUCATION

PAPUA

Battling Isolation,

Winning

Prizes

‐‐‐

Anike Bowaire, Papua

“If you don’t participate in the Physics Olympic

Competition, you will not promote to the next grade”.

That was what Anike’s teacher has told her when she was

asked to participate in the Kabupaten level of physics

Olympic competition. This make all the participants

laugh. The competition was initiated Anike experience

participated in various stages of the competition First

Step to Nobel Prize in Poland by writing a paper, entitled

Chaos System. The result is Anike became the champion

of the competition and beat hundred of papers from 23

countries.

Commenting on the presentation of smart practices from

Sekolah Kampung Sarmi Papua, Anike argues that

children have a lot of potential. The important thing is to

build the confident to participate in education from early

childhood as what have been done by Sekolah Kampung.

She also added that in Education there is no “wrong”,

what’s important is “brave”, because something wrong

can be corrected.

In the end of her speech she delivered a message to all

the forum participants to encourage the children’s self

confident, particularly by supporting the mothers

because they spend more times with the children.

Furthermore, parents should respect and support each

other to prevent domestic violence. She realized that

everything happened to her because she had

opportunities. For that reason, she asked to the

government to create opportunities as much as possible.

INSPIRING STORIES

Anike Bowaire: “Champion by Champion,

I won.” (doc. Private collection)

Barnabas Suebu (The Governor of Papua)




A Healthy Village is More Than Name in Bone‐Bone

Enrekang Head of District (Bupati), La Tinro La Tunrung, started the presentation with delivering the fact that Bone‐Bone

is a positive ironic village for non‐smoking best Arabica coffee producer. From this village, born positive rules that made

it deserve the title of Healthy Village. One of them is an obligation to plant trees for five years for the couple who want

to get married as their asset in case they want to build or repair their house. Mutual cooperation activities are still

carried out and every Saturday they work together to clean the village.

The success story of Bone‐Bone as non‐smoking area has change many people. One of them is the Bupati. If before he

could spend three packs of cigarettes per day, in 2007 he finally inspired by the ability of villagers Bone‐Bone break away

from the smoking habit. He said, “if people are able to do that then their leader must be more capable”. He hopes by

2013 all the villages in Enrekang can be free of smoke.

Non‐smoking idea came from Mr. Idris, the village chief of Bone‐Bone. Mr. Idris believes that to get a higher education

need economic support therefore people have to work hard. To work hard people have to be healthy. From his

experience he learnt that many of his villager got a lung diseases caused by smoking habit. The challenge to implement

this rule came from those who prohibited from smoking and in particular those who selling cigarettes. They consider the

rule make them lost their livelihood. After they heard the explanation and given another alternative livelihood, which

improving the productivity of their coffee plant, the rule was eventually can be implemented. And the result is Bone‐

Bone won The National Coffee Flavor Contest.

In addition to the smoking ban, Mr Idris also imposes a number of other restrictions, such as prohibition to sell snacks

that contain food coloring substance because it can damage children’s brain function and prohibition on selling and

breeding broiler chicken to prevent avian influenza cases and in order to maintain their chicken production.

Penalties provided for violations was quite unique. Violator has to bear the cost of green bean porridge for the whole

village. Penalties in the form of money are considered to cause gap between the rich and poor. At the end of the story,

Smart Practice of Bone‐Bone gets standing applause from all participants.

HEALTH

SMART PRACTICE: SOUTH SULAWESI

La Tinro La Tunrung (Bupati of Enrekang)

and Mohammad Idris

(Village Head of Bone‐Bone)

Bone‐Bone, Free‐smoking Village and Best Arabica Coffee Producer




HEALTH

GORONTALO

Serving the Public, Listening to the Public

‐‐‐ Iwan Bokings, Bupati Boalemo

Boalemo district which means Lemon, located in the western part of Gorontalo, about 2 hours by

car from Gorontalo. In that district, many people are poor and have not reached by local

government development.

Many efforts are being performed to promote the development of Boalemo. For example, to

reduce demonstration rates. The strategy was Mr. Iwan go to the villages and sleep with the

people to listen to their complaints and wishes. In order to understanding the situation of people

of Boalemo, he ordered 150 officers of Bolaemo Regency to visit and sleep with the people and

write a report about their experience.

A Public consultations forum was made to get respond from the people with visiting the village.

Messaging service via SMS also performed. Agreement of cooperation with other party like

investors carried out by direct consultation with the people. If the people agree, then the

agreement will be proceed. Transparency and accountability in the management of local budgets

is also become a concern because people want to know how the use of the funds. All the regency

budgets including officer expenditure like civil service salary and business travel budget were

displayed at the office wall. The officers often tell jokes, “this is not only Transparency but barenaked”.

Health service is also become the concern because the number of severe malnutrition case at

children under five years is high and the service is not maximum yet. The Bupati prepares special

room and food for the patient’s family even children toys. This was done because the handling of

child nutrition couldn’t be optimum since they took the children home. In addition, Mr Iwan also

provides opportunities for the public to be able to evaluate health services with colorful coin

method. This was later awarded the public service image by the Minister of Home Affairs.

Development of housing for the people is also done with the concept of integrated village.

Another effort is to make all homes have a toilet to overcome diarrhea and every patient with

diarrhea who seek health care will get a free toilet installed in his house. Ending his speech, Mr.

Iwan said, “Let’s serve with heart so that EI will be more advanced and prosperous”.

INSPIRING STORY

Various breakthroughs made by Mr. Iwan Bokings

(doc. Boalemo District Govt.)




Integrated Effort to Fight for Malaria in South Halmahera Before telling his inspiring story, Dr. Aziz expressed his gratitude to the EIF since they received assistance (Rp. 3.5 billions)

from PT. Telkom after the presentation of Smart Practice from North Maluku (financial assistance for the poor) in the EIF

IV last year.

In a story about effort to combat malaria, it was said that the South Halmahera is one of the malaria endemic areas in

Indonesia. Judging from the number of casualties and losses generated, the Anopheles mosquito, malaria spreader is

one of the most dangerous animal for humans. This disease can greatly harm the health, even threatening pregnant

women’s life in addition to lowering the intelligence and damaging brain of infants as well. Malaria can reduce human

productivity. In addition, malaria endemic area is not an attractive option in the tourism sector, which limits the

opportunities to increase revenues and foreign exchange from the sector.

Handling of malaria is not enough with medical response only, but requires a change in life behavior by community and

good environmental structuring. For that, cooperation from all parties in handling malaria is necessary, especially to

encourage behavioral changes into clean and healthy life behavior. In addition, it is also necessary to have an institution

to collect, move, coordinate and synergize all potentials and resources needed to fight malaria. Thus, on December 8th

,

2004, Malaria Center was built in West Halmahera. In addition to developing Malaria Center, the following strategies to

combat malaria had been prepared.

∙ Empowering fighting of water inundation as a place of mosquitos breeding

∙

Protecting pregnant mothers, infants and children under five from malaria by providing mosquito net with

insecticide

∙ Local content on Malaria for pupils in basic schools

Ending the story of malaria from South Halmahera, Mr. Firman asked all participants to sing a March Song “Fight

Malaria”

Let’s Fight Malaria Mosquitos Who likes to bite our villagers Fight, fight Malaria Mosquitoes For Healthy and Prosperous Villagers

ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE

SMART PRACTICES: NORTH MALUKU

Malaria fighting activities (doc.

Malaria Center) Dr. Ahmad Azis (Leader of Malaria Center)

and Firman (Malaria Program Officer)




ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE

WEST PAPUA

Managing Natural

Challenges

to

Become

Development

Capital

‐‐‐ Timotius Hindom

Mr. Timotius Hindom, from Wukendik Village in West Fakfak District, West Papua told his experiences in growing various

types of trees in his dry land. “So as to continue my children’s school,” Mr. Hindom explained about his motivation to

grow trees for additional income for his family.

He has worked hard for 17 years to grow trees with economic value, such as nutmeg and fruits.

Tree seedlings were obtained by Mr. Timothy from various places. He even obtained some from collecting grains he

found on the roads or dryfield. He also got not a few seedlings from his family. Currently, he has planted trees on land of

about 50 hectares.

Not only taking its benefits, Timothy invited several other families to grow different species of trees on empty land

abandoned. Until now, there have been twenty families following him, including Indigenous King in Kampung Werba, Mr.

Onim Bay.

Mr. Timotius Hindom’s hard work had taken him as one of the receivers of Kalpataru Award from the President of the

Republic of Indonesia. Now, Timotius is active to encourage families and communities in his village to grow trees on

empty land. The motivation is not just for increasing income, but also to preserve the environment and reduce global

warming!

INSPIRING STORY

Mr. Timotius’ efforts rewarded by

Kalpataru (doc. private)



P R OC E E DI NGS , E I F V 2 0 1 0 1 5

Women's Cooperative for Better Quality Of Life Men usually deal with banks for loan and it is still difficult to get, this has motivated Mrs. Wa Ode Sabariah to establish

village cooperatives without any skill to manage it. At the time, it was originated from a family gathering (arisan), and

then brought forth Sintesa Foundation, which further assisted housewives in Poogalampa village, Buton, Southeast

Sulawesi to develop cooperatives.

At the time, the management board members had limited skill. Until now, Mrs. Wa Ode Sabariah can not operate a

computer, but she was very happy to attend the EIF V and shared her experiences representing her colleagues. In the

cooperatives, they have main savings, voluntary savings and compulsory savings. Cashflow recording was also made to

let the members aware of where their money goes. Finally, the people want to join since they already have a system,

particularly for recording. They know that their money was collected in one place. In addition, the low interest rate of

only 1% without administration fee, and the place is easier to reach than banks made the people more interested to

saving in the cooperatives. Even, there are some people who withdrawn from the bank to be saved in the cooperatives.

From the capital of 1.5 millions rupiah at the cooperative opening, now we have assets worth about 400 millions rupiah.

The impact felt by the people with the presence of the cooperative for 10 years is that they can send their children to

pursue higher education, obtain business capital and build houses. Closing the dialogue, Ms. Sabariah left a message

that all women should support the cooperatives since it bring positive impact to the family.

ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

SMART PRACTICE: SOUTHEAST SULAWESI

Mata Mosobu, cooperatives having

positive impact on the family Syukri Rauf (Director of LSM Sintesa)

and Wa Ode Sabariah

(Chairperson of BUKP Mata Mosobu)




Village‐Managed Water Utility Company in Lombok

The quest for treasures on Smart Practices continued to Village Lendang Nangka, District of East Lombok, West Nusa

Tenggara. Mr. Mohamad Tahir and Mr. Supratman told the story of public initiative through the community‐based

organization to manage existing water resources for water consumption of the villagers. Mr. Mohamad Tahir told the

villgers’ efforts in managing water, making a mutual agreement and setting regulations on water. In addition, since the

water management was directly conducted by the villagers, pipe damaging and stealing were never happened until now.

All management works of water resources were carried out by autodidact without theoretical comprehension. While he

has at the age of 80 years, Mr. Mohamad Tahir was still always elected to become chairman of BAPAMDES (village

drinking water enterprise) with his modeled leadership. One of the main strengths in this system is regulation,

management and clear fund use. To date, in addition to having access to clean water, the villagers can also improve their

income by opening small business on ice making.

PUBLIC SERVICES

SMART PRACTICE: WEST NUSA TENGGARA

Mr. Mohamad Tahir

(Director of BAPAMDES “Asih Tigasa”)

and Mr. Supratman (Supervisory Board Member of

BAPAMDES “Asih Tigasa”)

Community‐based Clean Water Management at

Village Lendang Nangka




CENTRAL SULAWESI

Understanding Our Potential for

Better Planning ‐‐‐ Longki Djanggola,

Bupati of Parigi Moutong

For Mr. Longki, leading Parigi Moutong district was just

initiated by building mindset sourcing from the change of

development paradigm, namely from centralized into

decentralized system, top‐down into bottom‐up planning,

and

the

notion

that

communities

are

subject

of

development. He believed that development can be

carried out smoothly if supported by a comprehensive

planning based on valid data and public voices.

Recognizing the regional potency and socio‐cultural

condition of the people is the starting effort to develop

Parigi Moutong. Poor conditions in education and health

sectors, as well as poverty are evidences to the unfair

development. In aspect of regional economy, many

agricultural

products

were

claimed

by

neighboring

regency.

Efforts made were conducting training for MDGs’ cadres

for poverty reduction and health and education

improvement. Early age children education was also

provided expecting free illiteracy in 2013. Closing his

story, he leaves a message that there are some principles

that must be applied in regional development, i.e.,

welfare should be well‐planned, create secured and

peaceful environment, government officers are public

servant and leaders must be loved by its people.

PUBLIC SERVICES

EAST NUSA TENGGARA

Woman Monitoring Village Budget

‐‐‐ Nelci Pellandou

Another inspiring story came from Mrs. Nelci Pellandou

in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. A woman who previously

worked as Village Secretary in Village Manusak in 2005‐

2009, told her experiences in monitoring village budget.

When she worked as a village officer, she witnessed an

improper management of village budget. In early 2010,

she challenged herself to join a writing contest with a

theme “Timor Women Criticizing Budget” organized by

NTT Policy Forum. Apparently, she got a champion with

her writing and evoking various local mass media to raise

issues about women's role in monitoring the village funds

in their publications.

Since the writing was addressed by many local media,

many women in other villages eventually moved to

question the management of funds in theirvillage. Although she received unforeseen responses, she

ust feels as a woman who is not capable of doing

extraordinary things. But, now she is more confident to

continue evoking women in the surrounding area to

participate in monitoring the management of village

funds.

Finally she leaves a message that “if you want to have

better development, please listen to women! This

closing speech got applause from all participants.

INSPIRING STORIES

Area of Parigi Moutong District

(doc. Parigi Moutong district govt.)

Nelci Pellandou




At the end of the first day’s program, Riri Riza, Indonesia’s talented director from South Sulawesi,

shared an inspirational story about his experiences became a movie director in Indonesia.

Indonesia's cultural wealth is a huge potential to improve

quality of movie production in Indonesia. Currently, many

people consider a movie simply from the economic

aspect only. In fact, a movie can be a powerful media for

communicating regional potencies and cultures. Similarly

with Belitung, which became famous from the novel and

movie “Laskar Pelangi ” written by Andrea Hirata, the

movie made native people from Belitung in demand.

Riri Riza started to love movies since his childhood, at

which time he often accompanied his father, who was an

official at the Information Service of South Sulawesi,

played propaganda movies on development. Riri decided

to continue his education in the field of movie production

in 1988. After graduating in 1993, the Indonesian movies

industry was sinking. While at the same time, in the

world, movies were started to be used as a medium to

deliver ideas for empowering community. Later on, this

became a movement for the movie community. For

example in the USA, a black movie director Spike Lee

showed up racism in the USA by producing a movie that

later on developed into anti‐slavery movement.

According to Riri, Indonesian movies have the same

potential to develop even at the world stage. Laskar Pelangi , which tells about the destruction of a

community after the end of tin mining in Belitung, has

brought a story about Indonesia into different world film

festivals. The movie received great appreciations from many

audiences both at home and abroad.

The impact was immediate as well. Since Laskar Pelangi was

there, knowledge of Indonesian people about Belitung was

growing and this activating tourism visits in the

region. Before the movie was booming, in 2008 there was

only one hotel there. Now there have been six hotels. The

movie actors, native kids from Belitung, were now having

learning tools, and got scholarships until higher education.

Ending his story, Riri Riza underlined that movie is an

alternative way of thinking that may help to express success

stories. What makes the Laskar Pelangi easily accepted by

the audience was because the story is close to our

existence, just like all the stories on Smart Practices in

eastern Indonesia presented in this forum.

STEPPING TOGETHER REALIZING A DREAM

Riri Riza: Stories close to our existence would be easier to

be accepted



P R OC E E DI NGS OF E I F V , 2 0 1 0 1 9

The second day of EIF meeting began with a talk show with

representatives from international development partners

guided by Chandra Sugarda to know their responses to the

smart practices presented. International Development

Partners were represented by Sam Zappia (AusAID), Richard

Manning (AusAID), Daniel Hunt (AusAID), Patricia McCullagh

(CIDA), Blair King (USAID), and Amin Subekti (World Bank).

The purpose of this talk show is to convey thoughts,

programs, ideas and response to Smart Practices from

Eastern Indonesia.

Blair King (USAID) delivered his exceptional credit to BaKTI

and clearly impressed to the substance and management of

this meeting. It was shown by the enthusiasm of all

participants to join the meeting until afternoon. He was also

very impressed to the inspiring Smart Practices

delivered. But, according to Blair King, there are two things

that become future challenges, namely how to maintain the

success achieved and how to disseminate such Smart

Practices to other regions. One of the common things in the

sixth Smart Practices is leadership: village head, district

head and residents. They are the key to successful

innovation.Smart Practices should be more institutionalized

in the form of supporting regulations to be sustainable andnot just depending on the initiators who give the first

inspiration.

BaKTI was also asked to make documentation of all stories

on experiences or Smart Practices from the previous years

to be indexed and sent to all district heads in Eastern

Indonesia. The theme "Treasure" for the meeting is also very

interesting since it makes the program active and

memorable.

The next comment was given by Patricia Mc Cullagh

(CIDA). According to her, the Smart Practices told on the first

day described the important role of women to promote

community and economy. Nevertheless, violence against

women still continues so that efforts to eliminate the bad

behavior are necessary. Thus, the role of women can be

improved so that they would be more courageous to say, act

and play in their community. Helping women means helping

the community to move forward since they will educate

their

children

and

then

bring

their

village

or

community

to

abetter condition. Safe House of Women in Kupang is an

outstanding example and applicable to protect women and

at the same time strengthens the men, women, children

and even communities at large to contribute in eliminating

violence against women.

Discussions continued by hearing comments from Australia‐

Indonesia Partnership – AusAID and the World Bank. Talking

about Smart Practices means talking about accountability,

transparency and responsibility. This is important to be

done in all places. An interesting example came from Bupati

Boalemo in Gorontalo, who managed to reduce poverty

rate from 50% to 20% and dared to expose the district

budget in his office’s guest room to show it to every

guest. Smart Practices from Lendang Nangka, East Lombok

on water management was another form of accountability

and transparency. It was expected that the Smart Practices

can be spread to other regions. Although each region also

has its own uniqueness, but generally the stories on Smart

Practices could be replicated with local enrichment so that

local struggles can enrich efforts at the national level.

In general, the international development partners look

that efforts to discover and search for examples of such

Smart Practices are important and to give support for

replication and dissemination of these examples to other

regions to help them finding out solutions and adapting it to

the local conditions. Hence, the EIF plays an important role

to connect international development partners with local

governments, as well as to the existing local solutions.

What is the role of International Development Partners in

Sustainable Development in Eastern Indonesia?

This is one of the questions raised to the international

development partners after they listen to the progress from

the districts which describe self ‐reliance through

presentation on Smart Practices on the first day. Though of

course there are many areas in Eastern Indonesia requiring

assistance.

Responding to this, all representatives from the

International Development Partners in the program agreed

that smart solutions exist anywhere and even all around

us. Everything just needs to be translated into real works

and built on a sense of confidence. At this level, the

international development partners can facilitate. It must berealized that the international development partners do not

always have much knowledge on all events in the field. It is

important to think about how the Smart Practices can be

i

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SMART TALK WITH INTERNATIONAL

DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS

“Impressions to the Smart Practices & Inspiring Stories”




realized into a real program in the community.

For instance, the World Bank supports the Government of

Indonesia through a program named PNPM (national

program for community empowerment). In Papua, this

program was adapted into a program name RESPEK

(strategic plan for village development). This is an example

how to use existing local solutions to be developed and

replicated widely.

The international development partners play a role as a

fire, while the government, public and private sector play a

role as a wood. They only act as a catalyst to ignite the fire,

while we should be able to continue to look for woods.

Coordination is also an important thing for organizing

various issues. Since we talk about sustainability, many

elements need to be supported. Thus, through a good

coordination between international development partners

and the government, there could be many BaKTI which

could be used as a medium for exchanging knowledge and

communicating among the parties, especially the

government, community and international development

partners. In addition, energy generated from the

presentation on Smart Practices can generate spirit of the

international development partners to continue. Hopefully

videos on Smart Practices could be forwarded to Jakarta for

learning the lessons that could be adopted and replicated

elsewhere.

Building Collaboration among Stakeholders

Development of a dimension definitely relates to other

dimensions, for instance women empowerment has a great

impact on the family economy. Therefore, real and greatcontributions are necessary to community development as

a whole. For example, USAID during the last ten years had

made breakthroughs on assistance in collaboration with

the private sector compared to the period of 60‐70s. At the

time, collaboration with the private sector in the form of

innovations was still limited compared to now. Today,

amount of funds is larger, and investment by private sector

is very little, while value of bilateral and multi‐lateral

collaborations becomes smaller. In the end, private sector

has greater resources than the government. For that, there

must be collaboration among all parties for this.

To build collaboration among stakeholders in Eastern

Indonesia (EI), it is important for EI to have agendas since

international development partners can support agendas

prepared by EIF. Therefore, the EIF should be able to give

directions to raise issues that could be responded by the

international development partners. Another challenge is

how to support the EIF in the future. Currently, the EIF was

still supported largely by the international development

partners. It would be good if the EIF can get support from

all parties, both the government and private sectors.

As to the relation between the government and non‐

government parties, it was realized that there are only few

international development partners focusing on Local

Community Organizations. In fact, number of such

organizations is large and they are considered to be able to

build their respective regions. However, now the

international development partners was still more

associated with the government, especially the central

government, and after that they just associate with such

organizations. So, in the future there is a desire to build

strong relationships among the local community

organizations, local governments and private sector.

Closing this dialog, the international development

partners encouraged governments from 12 provinces in

Eastern Indonesia to support the next EIF.




SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Main issues:

Deforestation impacts on climate change and

environmental disasters, mining activities,

communicable diseases, lack of clean water supply,

sanitation, good governance to eliminate sector

egoism and decentralization.

Contents of resolution:

1. Decentralization of forest management by

reviewing budget allocation from central to local

governments.

2. Special budget allocation for environment at

least 1% of APBN/APBD. This figure should be

cross‐

administration

among

all

ministries.

3. Preparation of Perda/ Perdes for sustainable

development prepared in a participatory manner.

4. Advocacy to Smart Practices on environmental

management through informal meetings,

particularly to local government since their

involvement is very important.

5. Strengthening collaboration among regions in

accordance with the Law No. 32/1996.

ENVIRONMENT

LOCAL WISDOM TOWARDS GOOD

ENVIRONMENT

Main issues:

Saving and management of environment and

natural resources, regulation to local wisdom in

environmental management, synergy of the parties

involved and the need for social learning

community.

Idea: Revitalization of local/ traditional institutions’

role

Strategies:

1. Participatory planning includes: identification of

regional

basic

data,

clustering,

adaptation

of

local

wisdom and prioritization.

2. Improvement of synergy with the parties.

3. Establishment of social learning community for

sharing information and improving capacity.

Policy:

Preparation of supporting regulation on

revitalization of local/ traditional institutions as a

legal

umbrella.

EXPANSION IDEAS

“Composing Smart Resolutions”




BUDGET ALLOCATION FOR VIOLENCE

VICTIMS

Main Issues:

Violence against women, domestic violence, trafficking

both locally and domestically or internationally, facilities

for victims such as Safe House, limited funding ‐

facilitators or counselors often spent personal money

during assistance to victims, more active involvement by

parties other than NGOs.


1. Allocating special funds from DAK and APBD for the

victims of violence. Policy in implementation of pro‐

gender regulation generally remains weak. So,

supporting mechanism should be attempted. To date,

DAK usually went to local government (city/

district). Efforts must be done to optimize fund use

for assisting victims of violence.

2. DAK formulation should consider population and

history of regional cases to show up egalitarian or

equal aspect.

3. Transparent DAK/ APBD mechanism for the Local

Community Organizations.

4. Men involvement in the campaign.

5. Optimization of EI networks for information sharing.

GENDER EQUALITY

ELIMINATION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

& TRAFFICKING AND WOMEN

LEADERSHIP IMPROVEMENT IN

PUBLIC SECTOR

Main issues:

1. Cases on domestic violence and trafficking are still

taken place even though the Law No. 23/2004 on

Domestic Violence Handling and the Law No. 21/2007

on Fighting against Trafficking have been effective.

2. Women involvement in development is guaranteed

by the Laws, but real participation of women in

development

was

not

optimum

yet.


1. Encouragement of the government to empower the

P2TP2A (integrated service center for children and

women empowerment) in all districts and provinces.

2. Replication of Safe House in villages and other

strategic locations, both by the government and

community.

3. Encouragement of the establishment of trauma

center

for

rehabilitation

of

victims

of

domestic

violence and trafficking, particularly for underage

children.

4. Issuance of provincial and district/ city regulations on

implementing guidelines for prevention and handling

of domestic violence and trafficking, and operation of

Safe House in each village (without waiting for

issuance of provincial regulation).

5. Empowerment of community, family, victims and

actors particularly for improvement of economy and

other social capitals.

6. Consistent law enforcement, and monitoring and

evaluation by BPD (village council).

7. Establishment of networks among provinces and

neighboring countries in prevention and fighting of

trafficking.

8. Improvement of women leadership vulnerable to

conflict significantly (UNSCR 1325).

Atmosphere of group discussion on smart expansion idea




REPLICATION OF VILLAGE SCHOOL IN

REMOTE AREAS IN EASTERN

INDONESIA

Main issues:

Lack of access to public service, no supporting policy

at district level to village school activities, weak

support for operation, lack of public awareness on

investment in education, strengthening of local

human resources capacity to become movers for

supporting the village schools.

Contents of

resolution:

Strategy: Development of curriculum for village

school based on local community needs. Contents of

education are adjusted with the progress.

New policy: Village school should be a collective

responsibility of government and community.

School building can not be the only one indicator for

education advancement.

There should be a regulation by the government to

establish and support village school anywhere in

Eastern Indonesia. In district Sarmi, Papua, issuance

of a district regulation on the operation of education

contributed to budget allocation for village school

operation. This district regulation could be

continued by issuance of Regent’s Decree to

strengthen the initiative.

Idea:

Replication

of

village

school

in

Eastern

Indonesia. Smart Practice from Papua could be a

model to enable replication of village school in other

regions of Eastern Indonesia.

EDUCATION

ALL CAN GET TO SCHOOL

Main issues:

1.

Access

to

education

services

2. Education quality

3. Supervision to education operation

4. Partial development budgeting for education

5. Directorate General of PAUD (early‐age children

education) is under the new structure of Ministry

of Education

6. Eastern Indonesia should be ready for this new

condition


1. Allocating budget from DAK for education

managed by villagers.

2. Developing institutionalized control system for

education budgeting and operation system.

3. Providing ’reading house’ in each village.

All participants attended in the EIF V played active role in

giving smart expansion ideas (doc. Inspirit team)




MAINTAIN SMART PRACTICES ON

HEALTH

Main issues: inspiring story from Bone‐bone, public

awareness, leadership and law enforcement.


1. Reactivating inactive community‐based health

services, e.g., posyandu (integrated health

station) and so on.

2. Simple and practical health campaign to create

public awareness. Example from Bone‐bone

village, the head of village, Mr. Idris, initiated

free‐cigarette smoke village. The first way to do

is how to make people understand? How to

create awareness in a simple way?

3. Introduction on clean and healthy life behavior

which is required since early age.

4. Model leadership is a determining point for

successful health campaign.

5. Increasing number of health innovation

ambassadors, e.g., little doctor and healthy

general.

6. Using creative and local‐based approach. In

addition, the way should be made as simple as

possible, such as pregnant mothers should grow

banana and papaya trees since both crops are

healthy, nutritious and easy to rise.

HEALTH

COMMUNITY‐BASED HEALTH Main issues:

1.

Insufficient

health

funding

2. No corresponding commitment in health

development. No interconnection between

health office and other offices which are working

partially.

3. Clean and healthy life behavior were not

implemented properly by the community even

though promotion and publication were often

provided

4. Health development was not pro‐people. For

example, budget for improvement of health

center building was prioritized than provision of

complete medicines.


1. Consistency of implementing and budgeting

policy for pro‐people health. There should be

clear budget allocation in APBD. At present,

traditional belief on ambition was changed in

villages, where children are encouraged to be a

teacher not a doctor.

2. Consistency of implementing and budgeting

policy for pro‐people health. Health development

policy should be based on ”regional specific”.

3. Development of local contents on health based in

existing health issues.




SUSTAINABLE COMMODITY AND

COMMUNITY‐BASED ECONOMY

Main issues: Commodity and community‐based

economy. Several sectors had developed it by cluster.

Everything must be based on study and conducted

continuously, not partially. JiKTI (EI Researcher Network)

can support such study.


1. Establishment of an integrated cluster system from

upstream to downstream industries and even to

marketing.

Examples

of

primary

or

priority

commodities are seaweed, cocoa, coconut, fish and

rattan.

2. Involved parties: EIF, public service (local

government/ parliament members), entrepreneurs,

state‐owned enterprises, NGOs, CBOs, cooperatives

and definitely the press.

3. Strategies:

• SDM: it is important to provide dissemination for

stakeholders in agricultural, fishery and forestry

sectors.

How

to

assist

farmers

and

fishermen

to

have access to business capital? The main point is

how to make them bankable to get loan.

• Mind‐set revolution

• Capacity improvement, both for institution and

manpower.

4. Policies:

• Potency mapping

• Mobilization of Corporate Social Responsibility

(CSR) fund for more effective targeting.

•

Local wisdom on handling of coastal and small

island issues. This could be significant economic

potency.

• EIF involves parliament members, government

officials, actors, state‐owned enterprises and

entrepreneurs

• EIF – JiKTI conduct applicable research (e.g.,

coconut or seaweed laboratory)

ECONOMY

LOC L ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Main issues:

1. Regulation: it is necessary to have Laws regulating

priority natural resources in districts to give local

people larger authorities to support and manage our

regions. At micro level, it is also necessary to have

regulation for protecting SMEs since many of them

were failed with global/ national economic changes

where in the end they could not faced the healthy

competition.

2. Capital, due to the high bank interest. It could be

obtained

from

CSR

as

well.

3. Academic study and training/ development facilitated

by local government to be adopted by local people

and with continuous assistance.

4. Infrastructures: it is important for local economic

development.

5. Collaboration between public sector and private

sector.

6. Categorized into production, consumption and

distribution.

7.

Marketing

focused

on

local

commodity‐

based

products.


1. Encouraging the growth and development of SMEs to

reduce poverty.

2. Focusing on fish, seaweed, coconut, cattle, spices and

agricultural products, as well as marine tourism.

3. Producing competitive and international standard

products.




DEVELOPMENT PLANNING REFORM

Main issues: inverted pyramid of budget, more focus on

community

and

not

to

government

officials,

sometimesconsumed a lot of time to explain so it is necessary to

prepare written explanation–such as the story told by Mr.

Iwan Bokings who patched district budget on his office’s

guest room–, reform of DAU distribution and expenditures

– during the time, consideration was only the area of

district regardless of thinking about the infrastructures and

landscapes, program synergy between central and local

government – defining basic principles why the Smart

Practices could be working somewhere?

Strategies:

1. Mindset change of local leaders and government

officials as public servant.

2. Community is the actor/ subject of development and

should be involved in every process.

3. Leadership and example from local government are key

success of public services.

4. Mainstreaming the mass media role, including the press

and movie makers to publish the outputs for

transparency process.

5. Central and local government policies.

a. Central: DAU, where the allocation should consider

infrastructures and also condition of the population

e.g., poverty, education, health and regions, such as

small islands.

b. Local regulation on information transparency and

openness.

c. Rules associated with the above strategies.

PUBLIC SERVICES

PUBLIC SERVICES (CLEAN WATER) Main issues:

Clean

water

management

covering:

springs,

availability,

accessibility, effective technology, clean water

treatment, natural resources conservation, public

policies.

Main issues: clean water management

1. Developing GIS database on springs. Database factors

that affect climate, weather, natural conversion and

history of water sources.

2. Developing and applying effective technology based

on

local

characteritics

for

clean

water

supply.

3. Organizing clean water management body based on

local characteristics and gender equality.

Issues: natural resources conservation

1. Law enforcement on various cases of illegal logging.

2. Review of criteria for license approval on forest

concession rights based on the interests of

conservation and local consensus.

3. Establishment of Caucus for Environment




P R O C E S S

L E A R N I N G

F E E L I N G

Comfortable.. Work, work and work for Eastern

Indonesia development Highly inspiring!

Nice method, interesting Simple persons solve problems more real.

Something different and highly

inspiring

On the right track, Keep the spirit.

Best practices applied in other regions

Anike makes me proudly crying..

Definetely, the presenters are OK. Success with simple steps would

be replicated.. Anike is inspiring to all people who

want to go forward.

Interesting, meaningfull and not boring

What is needed is an opportunity Really inspiring :)

The process is very enjoyable.. People are the biggest assets of development

EIF V is succeeded, EIF VI in

Manado then!!! North Sulawesi

Remarkably comfortable. SPEAK = great, saving time

I’m learning lots.... Yes we can!!!

As a mother, Anike’s stories made

me motivated to motivate my

child

to

study

more.

THANKS.

The process is really fun Hopefully, I’ll do more for my

village. Seeing, hearing and feeling :)

Many can be seen Very useful treasures Touched, glad, proud

Dynamic, Inspiring, Good!!!! Learning movie and slide

presentation

Touched and inspired

Ms. Luna’s poem is cool .. Many good cases usable for development assets.

Optimistic!!

Cool and good job for the

organizers :) What is important is the

leadership and consistency

Ms. Luna is cool, happy to look at her

The picture is really cool! I want to make a movie like

“Laskar Pelangi” from Eastern

Indonesia!

The messages are sure coming to

my heart!

S P E A KSuara Petualang KTI (Voices of EI Adventurers)




Closing the 5th

EIF conference, Mr Alex Retraubun, as

Deputy Minister of Industry, gave his responses on Smart

Practices presented and overall implementation of the5th

EIF.

Before he started, he gave his appreciation to the 5th

EIF

as a forum that is full of innovations. The programs

performed on the stage are far from a classic image,

especially boring. The meeting room was always full for

two days until the event is finished.

Regarding Smart Practices, his first response is that there is

a common understanding from all the presentations on

Smart Practices, namely leadership is Important to

execute innovation.

There are a lot of innovations at the

individual level, but to be a message and developed,

innovations must be consistently done. How to persuade

people to follow us, that is leadership. Leadership is how

to ask people to follow us, who have to prove something

first. Therefore, we must understand well what we do and

feel.

All activities could be executed since there is a strong

leadership. For example, how a doctor with his capacity is

able to govern the governor, it happens because there is

innovation and creativity, which become new

breakthroughs. The practice which invites public officials

to sleep in the house of people is a great idea. This shows

how the Bupati invites someone else to have a concern

and understanding on the real situation. In addition,

experiences working as a government official proved that

investigation into the field should be done alone, not just

rely on reports from subordinates.

Innovation could be done or said to succeed when it can

overcome the social and economic issues. Smart practice

on clean water management is very good as it brings thesetwo contexts. For that, don’t let the innovations stop

there. Eastern Indonesia Forum was born from

anxiety. Although the "go east development" has been

established since the days of the new order, but until now

the changes in Eastern Indonesia were still limited since

there

is

a

rule

that

deliberately

played

down

the

eastern

region, which is about the fiscal balance between central

and local governments. The present regulation set forth

that a region with larger population and area may receive

larger amount of budget. Population outside of Java Island

is only amounting to about 20%, so Maluku with only 1.3

millions people do not have bigger bargaining power.

Therefore, it takes a huge energy to combine the energies

of society, NGOs, the local government and others.

The EIF should be also getting close to the lawmakers in

Senayan. Because, although there are some parliament

members from Maluku, the number was very small

compared to other provinces in the West, so the political

bargaining power is very small. Therefore, all parties in EIF

should be sitting down together with the companions

from Senayan to follow these processes. EIF should

become partner of the government, and all the

Bupati/Walikota and the Governors must have one word

about this.

How does the strategic policy of the Ministry of Industry

and Trade could be synergized? There must be courage to

call for growth improvement in eastern Indonesia. Some

commodities, such as cocoa, are coming from the eastern

Indonesia However, the processing plants were not

available there, only in Java Island. Alike seaweed, the

contribution of raw materials were mostly coming from

the eastern Indonesia, but the processing plants were not

available. In fact, it could be produced at least 500 end‐

products from the seaweed development, which means

increase in the economy activities. One of the reasons for

the absence of the processing plants are the existing

infrastructures was inadequate. To boost up industry, all

CLOSING

Alex Retraubun – Deputy Minister of Industry



potentials need to be identified and it is important to add

Smart Practices in order to foster community‐based

economy.

The law on fiscal balance between central and local

governments should also be amended. Geographical

structure must be considered since we are archipelagic

nation that could not be equalized with other large islands,

such as Java.

As he closed the program, Mr. Alex Retraubun, who also

came from Eastern Indonesia, namely Tayando Island,

Maluku Province, asked the participants to sing a few songs,

including "Killing Me Softly" and "Sio Mama".

The 5th Eastern Indonesia Forum meetings finally closed

with a full sense of unification. All participants held hands

and sang the song that symbolizes the loving brotherhood

from Maluku entitled Gandong E.

Living as brothers

Do not get lost,

We are all one offspring

Helping each other

Loving brothers each other,

That is Maluku custom

One hurts, all felt

One troubled, helping each other,

Oh ... fellow brothers

Do not get lost

Just because of property

You’ll regret it later on my brother,

Speak nicely

Do not hurt your brother

Let us unite

Living as brothers

Gandong E (Brotherhood)

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